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gradients at the approach to Texaco Road. It will be designed for traf fic travelling at an average speed of 50 miles an hour.
A dual carriageway road will link the new
motor road with Castle Peak Road at Kwai Chung.
This dual carriageway road will provide the backbone of the road layout for the reclaimed area. It will run on the roof of a rein- forced concrete culvert which will drain the catchment area to the north of Castle Peak Road and the hill terraces and reclaimed land.
The reinforced concrete culvert will be about 8,500 feet in length and about 50 feet wide.
To form the hill terraces to a de- sirable pattern, the consulting en- gineers have propared a plan for excavation of a considerable quan- tity of rock which will be used to
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build the seawalls included in the scheme and to construct a new typhoon shelter on the eastern side of Rambler Channel,
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The typhoon shelter will provide
feet 1,750,000 square
of sheltered water for fishing boats and other craft based at Tsuen Wan, Tsing Yi Island and the adjacent waters. It will also help to relieve the present overcrowding Cheung Sha Wan and in the Yau Ma Tei typhoon shelter.
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The seawalls and breakwaters to be constructed in this second stage of the development scheme will have a total length of about 11,000 feet. They will be built in varying depths of water down to 40 feet be- low mean low tide.
Parts of the seabed will be dredged to form the trench founda- tions for these seawalls and break-
waters.
When Stage II is finished, a third stage will complete the whole pro-
pect.
The work in the third and final stage will involve the completion of the entire reclamation of Gin Drinker's Bay and the construction of overpasses to link the terrace roads with the new motor road, thus avoiding traffic having to right.
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It will include extending the ter racing work on the two headland- to develop the remaining usefu! areas. Quay walls will also be built within the new typhoon shelter in Rambler Channel.
When the entire reclamation is finished, the main seawall, starting from Mong Chau, will be extended to join Pillar Island, which is now part of the growing isthmus form ed by the refuse dump connecting it to the Texaco headland.
'YOU AND YOUR ARCHITECT'
To show the manner in which new products developed in labora tories and research departments have inspired and made possible new fields of design. or.
NLY the second architectural exhibition to be held in Singa pore since the war, "You and Your Architect" far exceeded in public appeal the expectations of its ganisers, the Singapore Institute of Architects and the Singapore Minis- try of Culture.
More than 20,000 people visited the exhibition, whose main objects
were:
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To bring architecture to notice of the public as an essential part of living culture:
To foster a closer relationship be tween the public and the architect:
To show how good planning, ma- terials and design can produce good buildings free from fire. structural and other hazards:
To indicate the reasons for the need of building legislation.
To instil in the general public an appreciation of architecture and the valuable part materials play in transforming blueprints into aesthe tically pleasing ieality:
To show the public the latest technical advances as seen in manu- facturers' products:
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The exhibition also aimed at en- suring. in an age of rapid housing expansion, that the public has a bet ter understanding of the many pro- cesses involved in turning plans into finished buildings.
In a thriving city, with a grow. ing population and an expanding building industry, the greatest need is to build well, and as economically as possible so that conditions are ideal for living and progress in an efficient and modern architectural environment.
In the exhibition itself the In- stitute dedicated a stand to the pub lic. In this stand were shown the stages of an architect's work. from the first interview by the clients to the inspection of site. initial sketch plans, going through authorities, de- tailing. specifications. electrical. sanitary works and other details up to the final completion of the build- ing as depicted in the photographs of buildings shown in the exhibition.
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The very many interesting pro- jects were divided into section such as commercial, industrial, re ligious, residential, government pro- jects and works by the Polytechnic architectural students. There were also sections for building materia! firms to display their articles so that the public could gather some know- ledge of building materials used in their homes.
The trend in the design of buikd ings shown in the exhibition was to break away from old ideas and te¡ create a Malayan or rather a Malay- sian spirit in architectural expres sion, some showing Malayan type of roof in civic buildings and churches and also in some of the residential works.
The exhibition committee were: Messrs. Ho Kok Ho, M.S.JA. A.R.I.B.A.. James Lockerbit M.S.I.A.. A.R.I.B.A.. Low Ab Leng M.S.I.A., A.R.I.B.A.. Ong Eng Hung. M.S.L.A. The design
were:
Tob Messrs. committee Shung Fie. M.S.I.A.. A.R.L.B.A. Edwin Chan, M.S.I.A.. A.R.I.B.A. and Alan Choe. M.S.I.A.. ARIBA ",
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